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Banks’ and Pullman’s deliveries of these tragicomic characters elevate what could have been merely a genre exercise into something more fascinating and satirical.

It doesn’t take long into “The Iron Claw,” a tragicomic melodrama about an American wrestling dynasty, to know that the wildest scenes aren’t going to happen in the ring.

El Kempner has a keen eye for tragicomic detail on this ramshackle rocker about regret, denial and long-simmering incompatibility that results in a July 4 breakup.

The tragicomic chaos in the House in the last week is the natural result of a political party that has lived under Trump’s thumb.

Two Irish writers are on the shortlist: Paul Lynch, for post-democratic dystopia “Prophet Song,” and Paul Murray, for tragicomic family saga “The Bee Sting.”